Will we ever know?

Yesterday my best friend told me about this girl his mother used to know. Apparently this girl belonged to a very affluent business class family, her parents were looking for a match for her, and there was a proposal from another very rich family, for some reason, this girl rejected the guy and the proposal was turned down. A few years down the line, this girl's family suffered huge losses, they were forced to leave their home and all. Eventually, the girl got married,............... to the servant of the guy she had originally rejected!!!!! When I heard this story I was obviously horrified,the poor girl. Kinda makes you wonder,we plan our days, we plan our weeks, years, our lives, but do things ever go the way we want them to? In my case the answer is a big NO, no matter how meticulously I plan, Life always surprises me. Will we ever know how our lives will turn? perhaps not.

On the other hand, there is another story, my mom used to tell us, when she was a kid, there was this Government officer her dad used to know, this man (the officer), had 4 daughters, 3 of them got married, but he just could not find a suitable match for the last one, there was some problem with her kundli I think, after years and years of looking, he got tired and married his precious daughter to a rickshaw puller who used to live in a servant quarter close by, this poor guy, a brahmin, used to pull rickshaw during the day and studied at night, this way he had completed B.A and was appearing in various exams. The year this girl and the rickshaw puller guy got married, he cleared India's most prestigious examination and became an IAS officer:)

If there is one thing I have learned in my life it is this, that no one, absolutely no one, can predict what their life will look like, 5 years or even 5 days down the line. We think we call the shots and that we are in control, but we are not, therefore, don't beat yourself too much over what did not happen, and likewise don't gloat too much over what did. Life and human happiness is way too fragile to be taken seriously.